Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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The paper discusses the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1945) which was marked by numerous historic successes. The paper comments that as the leader of the Democratic Party who led his country for three terms, Roosevelt was able to pull his nation out of the depression and lead it into war against the Nazis and the Japanese. The paper notes that the most important aspect of Roosevelt's career was his ability to rescue his country from the depression with his revolutionary New Deal policy.

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"In essence, therefore, Roosevelt operated in a unique and original manner. There was underconsumption and overproduction, and yet no government regulation. In other words, just as the government needed to regulate the speculation of the stock market, so too it needed to minimize the excesses of what overproduction and underconsumption caused. More than anything else, all of this was rooted in the lack of the redistribution of wealth in the American economy."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Drucker, Peter. Post-Capitalist Society (New York: HarperCollins, 1993).
• Galbraith, John. The Great Crash, 1929 (Boston, 1954)
• Galbraith, John. A Journey Through Economic Time (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994)
• McElvaine, Robert. The Great Depression, 1929-1941 (New York, Randolm House, 1975).
• Rosenbaum, Herbert and Bartelme, Elizabeth. Franklin D. Roosevelt, "The Man, The Myth, The Era 1882-1945", (Greenwood Press, NY, 1987)

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